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PICADOR SHOTS - ' Water from the Sun': Discovering Japan
 
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PICADOR SHOTS - ' Water from the Sun': Discovering Japan (Paperback)

by Bret Easton Ellis (Author)
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  • Paperback: 62 pages
  • Publisher: Picador (16 Jun 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330445820
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330445825
  • Product Dimensions: 13.6 x 9.6 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 281,541 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #19 in  Books > Fiction > Cult Authors > Ellis, Bret Easton
    #25 in  Books > Fiction > Short Stories > World > Japanese

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In June, 2006, Picador launch "Picador Shots", a new series of pocket-sized books priced at GBP1. The "Shots" aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine. Bret Easton Ellis' two short stories chronicle the lives of a group of Los Angele's residents all of them suffering from nothing less that death of the soul. Ellis has immense gift for dialogue, off-the-wall humour, merciless description and exotic bleakness.In "Water from the Sun", Cheryl Lane is going under. Her marriage to William has broken down, she has moved in with a young boy half her age who is more interested in other young boys that in her and she keeps not turning up at work, the one area of her life that seems to be in good working order. To keep afloat she drinks, she shops and she takes pills. Would meeting up with William, something she has been avoiding like everything else in her life, give her what she needs anyway?In "Discovering Japan", Bryan, is on tour. His manager, Roger, has taken him to Tokyo to promote his record and do a few gigs. But to get Roger out of hotel room, off the drink, drugs and women is going to be a tall enough feet itself for Bryan. Written with spare and hypnotic prose, this is a story about a man hell-bent on distruction by a writer deeply concerned with the moral decline of our society.

About the Author
Bret Easton Ellis is the author of four novels - most recently, Lunar Park - and a collection of short stories, which have been translated into twenty-seven languages. He divides his time between Los Angeles and New York.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Miniature fun (with a Godzilla drawing on the cover), 22 Jul 2006
By N. Thorne - See all my reviews
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If you have Ellis's short story collection The Informers then don't buy this as this is just two stories taken from that collection, no new material unfortunately.

Having said that, after reading the two stories (one about a news presenter who has been dumped by her husband for a younger woman and has shacked up with a 19 yr old boy- and the other story is about a messed up rock star in Japan) I found that I'd enjoyed them and ordered a copy of The Informers to see what Ellis's other short stories were like, so it's a pretty good recommendation, no?

The book is also really dinky, like a few inches tall and even fewer inches wide. But then it's only a pound so I guess you get what you pay for. A good quick read nonetheless!
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